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MSI GT680 Serial Number Checking

Topic: System & Tuning by at Monday, July 4th, 2011

MSI gt680

MSI have set up a website (MSI GT680 Serial Number Checking), so that people anywhere in the world can type in the serial number of their GT680 notebook computer to check whether or not the Intel chipset inside it is the flawed older version. If the search results do not show a corresponding number, … more

World’s only 1TB SSD Drive with Standard 2.5” SATA Connectivity

Topic: System & Tuning by at Monday, May 30th, 2011
Foremay 1TB SSD Drive

Foremay 1TB SSD Drive

Foremay, a leader of technology innovation in solid state drives,  announced that its 1TB SSD drives in standard 2.5” SATA interface with a thickness of 9.5 mm, and its 480GB standard 1.8” micro SATA SSDs with thickness of only 5 mm are in production. Both the 1TB 2.5” SATA SSDs and 480GB 1.8” micro SATA SSDs are offered in Foremay’s SC199 (for mission critical applications) and EC188 (for enterprise applications) product families. The read/write speeds for both products are up to 250 MB/s. Users can opt for either industrial grade or commercial grade for both products to suit their specific applications. Foremay’s 1TB solid state drive is the Largest SSD in the world today in standard 2.5″ SATA form factor.

The SC199 product family is designed for mission-critical applications that require high reliability, … more

The New Cray XK6 Supercomputer

Topic: System & Tuning by at Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Cray XK6

Cray XK6 Supercomputer

Cray Inc. announced the launch of the Company’s new production hybrid supercomputing system — the Cray XK6 supercomputer — at the 2011 Cray User Group (CUG) meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska. The highly anticipated new supercomputer will combine Cray’s Gemini interconnect, AMD Opteron(TM) 6200 Series processors (code-named “Interlagos”) and NVIDIA Tesla 20-Series GPUs to create a tightly-integrated supercomputing system upgradeable to more than 50 petaflops (quadrillions of operations/second) of compute power.

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Manno, Switzerland is Cray’s first customer for the new Cray XK6 system. … more

How To: Renew Your IP Address

Topic: General, Internet & Online, Microsoft, System & Tuning, Windows by at Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

How To: Renew Your IP Address

How To: Renew Your Computer’s  IP Address: It happens to the best of us.  You’re surfing away and up pops the dreaded “Page Not Found” error.  After checking your connection and modem and everything seems good, do you really have to make that dreaded call to your ISP?  The answer is more than likely, No.  Often the problem is that your computer’s IP (Internet Protocol) Address needs to be renewed.  This is not as daunting a task as it sounds, just follow the step-by-step instructions and you should be good to go.

How To: Renew Your IP Address